Ukraine has offered the United States a “lend-lease” agreement on the supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in order to get about six billion cubic meters of fuel.
“Top energy executives from Ukraine are pitching Washington and other Western capitals on a raft of potential solutions to secure supplies to last through the upcoming winter and boost domestic production. This includes proposals to secure international financing to buy natural gas from major exporters in the Middle East and North Africa, developing alternative supply routes, and a possible “lend-lease” agreement with Washington to import U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG),” the Foreign Policy media outlet said.
One of the new proposals floated by Ukrainian energy officials is to secure energy supplies under a lend-lease agreement, which would see the United States provide Ukraine with 6 billion cubic meters of LNG, delivered to terminals in Europe – Ukraine doesn’t have any LNG terminals – before being shipped via pipeline to Ukraine. Kyiv would repay the United States in two years once domestic production of gas is ramped up. (Ukrinform/Business World Magazine)
